>>2021189I've lived in brooklyn and manhattan. Sometimes near a good train line, sometimes near more than one, sometimes not so much.
The deal is, the train is great if you fit a certain profile, for example if you are a tourist, or a midtown office worker working 9 to 5 and you have no desire to go anywhere other than between your home that is on a subway line, and work in the designated "work neighborhood". In some other cases the train can still be pretty decent as long as you have a fair amount of redundancy on both ends of the trip. That means if your primary origin/destination is in one of these areas you're in great shape and you'll love the subway
-Brooklyn north of Union Street
-Manhattan south of Central Park
-Long Island City and south Astoria
Once either of your end points is not in one of those places, you'll start to like the subway less and less. Most of the time, when you hear someone screeching about how wonderful the mass transit is here, they're assuming you've got at least one endpoint on the list above. Most likely two. If your trips don't fit those criteria, then your opinions about the system are clearly wrong and you are dumb, cubeless educated stupid, your ignorance is demonic, and you are a nimby boomer cagetroll who doesn't know what's in your own interests.
